I told the truth in an interview which made me look worse that I might have otherwise but I am sure telling the truth got me the job.At an interview for my first position as a graduate the manager congratulated me on getting a Distinction for Maths. I had to admit that the "D" on my transcript was not for a "Distinction" but for "Done that don't have to do it again"

The manager was I am fairly sure setting a "trap" for me to fall into. If I had said that it was a Distinction I am sure he would have known that it was a lie and that I would not have been successful in getting the job.

The reason he was able to so easily set this trap was that 1/2 my transcript had P, C, D HD, and the other 1/2 of the transcript was makes using A,B,C,D,E,F which allowed him to have possibly been genuinely confused but close reading would have shown that the D was in that case not a Distinction.